Pope Goes Bonkers? | 73 comments (73 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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Isn't Mel Gibson part of this faction? Perhaps he's just angling for sympathetic treatment in an upcoming Hollywood Biopic?(although with the opinions of the last Bishop no doubt Financing becomes somewhat tricky)

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Fri Jan 23rd, 2009 at 05:48:20 AM EST

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He probably shares some ideas with them, but he isn't really part of that tradition, I don't think.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Jan 23rd, 2009 at 06:45:04 AM EST
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His father ran his own traditionalist Catholic sect in Australia if I recall...

notes from no w here

by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot male dotty communists) on Fri Jan 23rd, 2009 at 08:42:57 AM EST
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I always thought it was allied to the French group. Interesting that there's a thread of anti-semitism in there, given young Mel's somewhat ill-judged outbursts on that subject.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Fri Jan 23rd, 2009 at 01:57:13 PM EST
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Re: Pope Goes Bonkers? (4.00 / 1)

While Gibson was in Italy shooting the Passion he had his own priest to say mass daily. The mass was in Latin.

by de Gondi (publiobestia aaaatttthotmaildaughtusual) on Fri Jan 23rd, 2009 at 03:47:29 PM EST
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Pope Goes Bonkers? | 73 comments (73 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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